1/20/15

home.

1/20/15
today has been a bit of a homesick day.

its strange how often they are coming.
my heart is so heavy as i type this. 

so many memories and thoughts of home flood my mind-
the smell of those tall covering evergreens
driving down old windey 
walking home from school 
the rain
the smell of rain
pine needels.. everywhere!
my room
our soft carpet
my car. oh my car
the muddy pathway that i learned to navigate so perfectly on my way to seminary before the sun ever came up.
walking to seminary in the cold
hills 
more trees
dan barking
seeing the olympic mountains from our driveway.
target & going there for no reason just to go
caden. oh my sweet caden- i miss that kid so much. ah my heart. i miss him calling me from school to pick him up after swim or track. i miss driving him to the gym and picking him up at 11pm. i miss driving him to his friends houses all the way on the lake. i miss just spending time with him. jamming out to music. i miss our little competition of who could make it out the door to seminary first (to which he always won). i miss his loud and obnoxious friends over. i miss seeing his face. i miss my caden.
i miss wa.





i snapped this picture the morning i left. our sweet home. twelve years spent there. i can close my eyes and see every corner, every little piece of decoration. &i hope those memories don't fade.






1/3/15

a bit behind

1/3/15
im kinda behind here, so fourth post today/

today was really really great.
i didn't do a whole ton, or stay out past curfew because i was having too much fun.
no, i just kinda hung around.

i woke up suuper stressed out because this video i made of our trip to mexico got erased off my computer. oh my heart. soo much time and exactness. 
but
by some miracle it was on my external hard drive thing- no idea how it got there. 
but there it was. i cried. happy tears.
2m57s, who knew that would cause me sooooooo much distress.

so i got that all uploaded to my vimeo.

then i went to the temple with ryan and kendall.
that was the highlight of my day.
love the temple. & loved going there with friends.
ya thats what made my day really really great.
it was so nice to just sit and read the scriptures while we waited. the scriptures are truly amazing and hold so much truth.



oh and i did homework. leaving school for a week to go to mexico isn't that easy.

then got sushi with sally and some other people.

then came home and did more homework.

&&&im home on a saturday night which is weird. but this blanket that i took from grandpa and grandmas house if making my night cozy and warm, so I'm okay with that.

today was just so good. 
and now I'm sitting at my computer eating an orange pepper-- weird

oh and church starts at 11am
idk how i feel about that..
my heart belongs to 9am

oh and i ordered a new phone. hooray

hooray for january third


mexico pt2













































mexico

mexico was great.
jk it was more than great.
it was incredible.

heres a bit of what we did.
-played in the ocean..alot
-drank lots of fancy tropical drinks. holler at all inclusive.
-swung and napped in hammocks
-saw new places; tulum, nohoch mul, coba, downtown playa del carmen & cozumel
-swam in cenotes. holy cow. wow best thing I've ever done
-rode in dune buggies.
-crashed in dune buggies.
-flew threw the jungle. jk zip lines.
-room service. again, all inclusive <3
-rode around cozumel on mopeds
-snorkeled
-volleyball
-took lots of picutres 
-rainstorms whilst swimming in the ocean. wow
ah this is bad, I'm already starting to forget things. but ya we did soo much, saw so much, ate so much and had so much fun. so glad i got to spend that time with my family. they rock. a lot.

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